Lin Yi seemed to sense something. He glanced at Jin Ling'er and smiled. "You guessed?"
"The Present Tathagata Sutra?" Jin Ling'er asked in disbelief.
Lin Yi nodded and raised the book with the unmarked cover. "This is indeed the Great Chan Temple's Human Immortal manual, the Tathagata Sutra. Supposedly, mastering it grants the power to reign supreme over the present. That part is just boasting, though."
"Chan, the founding patriarch of the Great Chan Temple, inherited the teachings of the ancient Holy Emperor Yuan. Yuan was a Yang Spirit master, not Hong, the Holy Emperor born as a divine embryo who cultivated to the Vacuum Shattering realm."
"Apart from Creation Daoist, the unfathomable founder of the Way of Creation, and the master and disciple whose might awed the cosmos—the Eternal Emperor and Emperor Pan—no one else attained both supreme realms, Vacuum Shattering and Yang Spirit."
Lin Yi offered a few casual explanations, generous with his guidance for Jin Ling'er.
When he finished, the scripture in his hand opened to reveal an image of a Buddha forming a different hand seal.
The Buddha was drawn so vividly that it seemed three-dimensional. Inside its body was a point glowing red!
Beside that point was a thumb-sized image of a deity.
This scripture was the latter half of the book. Its first half had been torn away, leaving it without a title. It recorded how to locate and cultivate 108 apertures in the human body!
After reading it, Lin Yi identified thirty-six as primary bodily apertures and the other seventy-two as hidden apertures.
Rustle, rustle.
Lin Yi rapidly turned the pages. The method for refining those thirty-six primary apertures felt familiar, but he could not place it, unable to catch that fleeting spark of insight.
Jin Ling'er stared intently at the images and